[Added]: Reports of the accident started coming in shortly before 4 p.m.

A Metro spokeswoman told ABC7 that a motorist going north on the 110 freeway inadvertently entered the bus stop lane at the Metro Green Line station (11500 S. Figueroa St.) and, to avoid hitting a stopped bus there, ended up driving onto a platform where people were waiting for a bus, striking six.

The Metro stop appears to connect the Figueroa corridor above to the freeway, from which buses come for connections.

At about 4:09 p.m. Metro announced that the "freeway level" of the station was closed.

[Update at 4:31 p.m.]: L.A. Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott told us that 7 people were hit and sustained serious to critical injuries. They were all taken to hospitals.

The victims included six males and one female, he said.

Rescuers got the call at about 3:15, according to Scott.

Mark Littman of Metro told us the same story that was told to ABC7, namely that a "wrong-way driver" ended up in a lane used by a freeway level bus stop at the Metro Green Line station and, in order to avoid a stopped bus there, drove onto a platform and hit "6 or 7" people waiting for a bus.

Dennis Romero has worked on staff at several magazines and newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian, and, as a
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